Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Rise of the Gaming Industry In Social Networks

The rise of social networks has meant many different things, for many
different people. There are many ways to use this new and exciting
technology. But first, a brief primer of what exactly is social
networking, or what is more commonly known as Web 2.0.

Social
networks allow web visitors to interact in ways that are never before
possible in any other mediums. On social networks, you are able to read
articles, download PDF reports, leave comments, chat with your friends,
participate in forums, vote for your favorite content, share bookmarks,
attend video meetings, play games, and more. You can do all that on the
Internet. But you can't do that with the television, the radio, the
telephone, and the fax machine. The Internet is being used by people all
over the world to connect with one another, through many different
means and formats such as text, audio, and video. It allows web users to
get an instant response from the other half of the globe, without
having to pay for hefty fees.

Web 2.0 has been on the rise, and
that is a well known fact. We see the rise of Frienster, MySpace,
YouTube, and now, Facebook. All these sites have made it to the top ten
sites in the entire world in a few short years, with Facebook overtaking
MySpace recently. And the reason why Facebook has been able to do that,
is because Facebook allows developers to develop third party
applications on its platform. This presents huge opportunities for many
different people.

One industry that has greatly benefited from
Facebook's developer platform, is the entertainment industry. Or more
specifically, the gaming industry. Developers have invented innovative
games to be hosted on Facebook's platform, so that now, members of
Facebook can simply install the game for free with a click on the
button, and play it either by them self, or play it with their friends.
Of course, if they want to play the same game with their friends, they
would have to share it with them, and get them to install the game as
well. That's very easy to do within the Facebook website, and Facebook
members have certainly been spreading the applications that they like.
The first wave of third party applications have already seen millions of
members installing the applications.

As a real life illustration,
one of the most impressive games, now hosted on Facebook, allows the
player to play the role of a virtual crime lord. It's called Corruption
Unlimited. You can play this game alone, or with friends. There's an
internal chat system for communications. And the coolest thing about
this game is that you can even play it from your mobile phone. That
means you can interact with your friends and play the game while you are
commuting. That's really going to be useful for some people.

Every
day, more and more third party applications like Corruption Unlimited
are being developed by talented developers. When I contacted the
developer, he boasted an impressive three thousand hours of coding was
invested into making the game play more exciting. With such talented
developers around, the Social Networks have indeed become a more
exciting place.